Australian lottery winner waited seven months before claiming his $2 million prize

If you won a lottery jackpot surely you would be desperate to cash your lucky ticket in. Not for one man. An Australian lottery winner waited seven months before claiming his $2 million prize and even then he considered waiting longer.

A 48 year old Australian small business owner won the lottery last year but waited seven months before taking his cash. The lucky Aussie who describes himself as Ã¢â‚¬Å“a bit of a crazy sort of blokeÃ¢â‚¬Â said that he need time to get his head around the idea of being a rich man. He told New South Wales Lotteries “There was something about claiming that much money that I wasn’t ready for. I had to get my head around it.” He continued by saying “I actually thought about leaving it another couple of months.Ã¢â‚¬Â

Being a small business owner has made the man respectful of money and he was also wary of how big lottery wins have ruined other peopleÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s lives. He was comforted merely by the fact that the ticket was in a tin at home. The patient lottery winner was happy to continue as normal while he came to terms with his new-found fortune, further comforted by the safety buffer that the winning lottery ticket now provided.

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